BRC T&E Team's Office Hours
2024-01-03 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-12-20 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-12-13 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-12-06 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join the Business Resource Center’s Travel and Entertainment Team for office hours!
We will address issues related to travel policy, booking and procedures. Additionally, we will provide guidance on use of the Concur Reimbursement System and assist in correcting any returned Concur Requests and Expense reports. Please log into our Zoom room located at: https://UCOP.zoom.us/j/3301316753?pwd=[REDACTED]

New Year Holiday
2024-01-01, 2023-12-29

Winter Curtailment
2023-12-27 - 2023-12-28

Winter Holiday
2023-12-25 - 2023-12-26

SharePoint Online Office Hours
2023-12-20 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-12-13 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-12-06 10:30 - 11:00 | Online (via Zoom)
This is an open forum for SharePoint end-user support around the UCOP SharePoint Online migration.

Ask us about SharePoint terminology.
Find out how to perform specific functions.
Ask “Is it possible to do…”.
Get help on creating simple pages, views, list, libraries and webparts.
Hear about the latest updates.

Zoom meeting link: https://UCOP.zoom.us/j/96940300027

SERG & OPSA Winter Holiday Wrap Parties
2023-12-19 11:30 - 13:30 | Oakland, Franklin 6411 & UCPath Center, Room 2117
Join the Sustainability Employee Resource Group (SERG) and Office of the President Staff Assembly (OPSA) for a Winter Holiday Wrap Party in Oakland and at the UCPath Center! Bring your own presents to wrap and ideas to create fun food gifts. We’ll share:

How to choose the best wrapping paper for the environment (aka sustainable paper)
Budget friendly alternatives to wrapping paper
Fun food gift ideas
Holiday mindfulness activities to ease stress

Mindfulness at UCOP
2023-12-15 11:00 - 12:00
Less stress. Enhanced awareness and focus. Improved health.
These are some of the benefits shown in research studies on mindfulness. In this one-hour workshop, you will learn how to both reduce your stress and increase your effectiveness at work through simple mindfulness techniques. Some highlights:

Research on mindfulness benefits
Mindfulness vs meditation
Simple mindfulness practices at work

Developing a Career Plan
2023-12-14 11:00 - 12:00
UCOP offers free Career Development tools at your fingertips. Come learn how to use My UC Career and LinkedIn to develop your professional brand, share and document your accomplishments, and network with colleagues in UC.

New Employee Orientation (Virtual)
2023-12-14 10:00 - 12:00
*Virtual orientation dates are only available to UC Path, UCDC, Sacramento and fully remote employees.
Starting a new job or new location can be daunting. The UCOP New Employee Orientation is designed to facilitate a smooth transition to the organization. Topics include: • University of California and our history • Overview of UCOP and the organization • Tools and Resources • Safety • Compliance
Register for New Employee Orientation
Please note: For information about orientations to UCOP benefits or UCOP IT tools, visit the UCOP Life webpage: https://www.ucop.edu/local-human-resources//op-life/new-employee-orientation.html

UCOP Creating Accessible Documents
2023-12-13 13:00 - 14:30, 2023-12-06 13:00 - 14:30
In this two-part training we will provide you with all the information you need to create accessible Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and PDF documents. The first session will focus on the principles of accessibility, how to generate accessible Microsoft Office documents, and how to export these to PDF. The second session will focus on Adobe Acrobat and how to edit or enhance accessibility within a PDF file. We will be remediating a Word document during session one and a PDF during session two. While sample documents will be provided, please feel free to bring your own documents to practice on.
Participants must attend both sessions:

Wednesday, December 6 | 1-2:30pm PT
Wednesday, December 13 | 1-2:30pm PT

Churros, Chocolate y Más: LaSA Scholarship Fundraiser
2023-12-13 11:30 - 13:30 | Franklin Lobby 1
Indulge in a sweet treat and support a great cause! Peruse and purchase a delicious assortment of churros, hot chocolate, and other baked goods during our baked sales. Proceeds will support students’ educational journeys! Advance registration is not required.

Pivto Table Techniques
2023-12-13 09:00 - 12:00
In this workshop you will learn tips and tricks with Excel PivotTables and how they can be an invaluable tool in helping you analyze your data and present your conclusions in compelling ways. If you have been using PivotTables and are wondering what more you can do with them or are maybe running into obstacles and wishing you can get around them, this workshop will help you unleash the power of PivotTables and get outstanding results.

UCOP Pride End-of-Year Lunchtime Social
2023-12-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 5113
Bring your lunch and join us on the fifth-floor patio (or Franklin 5113 if the weather is uncooperative). We will welcome new employees to UCOP and UCOP Pride, hang out, have fun and get to know each other better.

New Employee Orientation
2023-12-12 09:00 - 12:00 | B 4001
Starting a new job or new location can be daunting. The UCOP New Employee Orientation is designed to facilitate a smooth transition to the organization and is offered in person every month at the UCOP Broadway building in Oakland. Topics include: • University of California and our history • Overview of UCOP and the organization • Tools and Resources • Safety • Compliance
Register for New Employee Orientation
Please note: For information about orientations to UCOP benefits or UCOP IT tools, visit the UCOP Life webpage: https://www.ucop.edu/local-human-resources//op-life/new-employee-orientation.html

Leading Toward Equity
2023-12-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
Join a candid conversation with Nathan Brostrom, Jenny Kao and Epiphanie Gillette about their equity journeys at UCOP.
Advance registration is not required. Join via Zoom: https://UCOP.zoom.us/j/3967131838?from=addon

Virtual SERG & OPSA Winter Holiday Wrap Presentation
2023-12-08 14:00 - 15:00
Join the Sustainability Employee Resource Group (SERG) and Office of the President Staff Assembly (OPSA) for a virtual Winter Holiday Wrap Presentation! We’ll share:

How to choose the best wrapping paper for the environment (aka sustainable paper)
Budget friendly alternatives to wrapping paper
Fun food gift ideas
Holiday mindfulness activities to ease stress

People Leader Forum - Rejuvenation
2023-12-08 13:00 - 14:00
The People Leaders Forum is a monthly opportunity for people managers to connect with one another to develop leadership skills, build community, share best practices, swap strategies for navigating current challenges and learn to better support themselves and their teams.
December Topic: Rejuvenation

Staff Assembly Virtual Bingo
2023-12-08 12:00 - 13:00
The OP Staff Assembly invites all staff to attend virtual bingo with colleagues from all UCOP locations, as well as UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara and UCSF. This month, we’ll meet UC Riverside Staff Assembly’s Director of Finance Penni Ebina and another special guest board members. There will be two virtual sessions: Matinee, from 12 – 1 p.m. (PT), and evening, from 6 – 7:30 p.m. (PT). The registration deadline is 5 p.m. (PT) the day before the event. Instructions and rules will be sent to each participant before the game. Zoom rooms will open 10 minutes before each session.
Register online here: https://forms.gle/Dn3gKLfVXerpNyg49

Oakland Zoom Room Training
2023-12-06 13:30 - 14:00 | Broadway 5070
Get in-person training on how to use enhanced Zoom rooms at UCOP. Each room features a software-based, integrated experience for audio conferencing, wireless screen sharing and video conferencing. Rooms allow users to join and host Zoom meetings without logging into a PC or dialing a phone.
Advanced registration is not necessary. Join us in Franklin 5322 from 1:30 – 2 p.m.

Box Fundamentals
2023-12-06 10:00 - 11:00
This course will give you an overview of Box, the cloud-based service that provides secure file storage and file sharing.

Excel: Macros and VBA
2023-12-06 09:00 - 12:00
In this two-part series, the learner will understand how Macros and VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) help users customize and automate repetitive tasks in Excel. Macros can automate those tasks to be repeated when needed. Where macros are limited, VBA coding can expand a user’s ability to perform those necessary tasks.
Key concepts for parts one and two include:

Recording and Executing Macros
Editing Macros
Adding Visual Basic to Enhance Macros
Creating Interactive VBA Procedures
Design Decision-Making VBA
Looping VBA Procedures
Debugging and Error Handling VBA Techniques

We strongly recommend that the learner has successfully completed MS Excel Intermediate or have the requisite skills taught in this class before enrolling.
Participants must attend both sessions:

Wednesday, November 29 |9am-12pm PT
Wednesday, December 6 | 9am-12pm PT

Changemakers EDI Conference Keynote: Laura Hassner
2023-12-05 15:05 - 16:05
The inaugural UCOP Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) conference will follow the theme and call to action of Changemakers. Join us for this virtual keynote address, “Steadfast Leadership: Lessons from Living with Agency” featuring Laura Hassner, MBA.
Laura Hassner is UC Berkeley’s executive director of innovation and entrepreneurship — an overarching ecosystem for connecting students, alumni and faculty with the resources needed for their ideas to succeed — as well as the leader and co-founder of Berkeley Changemaker.
Register for “Steadfast Leadership: Lessons from Living with Agency” featuring Laura Hassner, MBA — 3:05 p.m. PT
Please note that registration for each keynote address is separate. Register here for “Inclusion That Moves” featuring Marisa Hamamoto at 9 a.m. PT.

UCOP Mentorship Program Information Session
2023-12-05 14:00 - 14:30
Come learn about the UCOP Mentorship Program, an exciting opportunity to share and learn career skills and leadership practices, guide and navigate the UCOP culture, and establish long term professional relationships. The goal of the Mentorship Program is to create mentor–mentee pairings that provide a supportive structure for UCOP employees to cultivate contacts, explore challenges and enhance their effectiveness as they grow both personally and professionally.
In this information session you will learn the requirements for and what will be expected of our mentees and mentors. This session is not required to submit an application.
Additional Sessions:

Tuesday, December 5 | 2-2:30pm PT
